United States v. Asif Merchant

United States v. Merchant In this video I go over the indictment and detention of Asif Raza Merchant, a Pakistani and an agent of the Iranian regime who is alleged to have orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot targeting US officials—including President Trump. The previous video on this case is here: https://rumble.com/v74jupm-intro-to-united-states-v.-asif-merchant.html The playlist for this case is here: https://rumble.com/playlists/GPU2xTJuao4 I’m always interested in what y’all have to say on the topics I cover in my videos, so please let me know your thoughts in the comments And if you like the video, well, hit the LIKE button, hit SHARE, and consider supporting my coffee habit and document addiction. Support Just Human Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/realjusthuman Substack: https://justhuman.substack.com/ Benson Honey Farms affiliate link: https://bensonhoneyfarms.com/?sca_ref=4394753.kkfBnmBW7U Bootleg Products affiliate link: https://bootlegproducts.com/ref/9/ Manly Cans affiliate link: https://www.manlycans.com/r?id=bn85pa Just Human Merch: https://www.redwhitebourbon45.com/category/just-human Follow Just Human Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/JustHuman Substack: https://justhuman.substack.com/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@justhuman X: https://x.com/realjusthuman Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialjusthuman All of my links in one place: https://linktr.ee/just_human #JustHuman

United States v. Merchant This video provides a brief overview of the case. Asif Raza Merchant is a Pakistani and an agent of the Iranian regime who is alleged to have orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot targeting US officials—including President Trump. Merchant came to the U.S. in April 2024, was surveilled, and investigators, we later learned, had a FISA on him, and he was tricked into meeting with a confidential source for the FBI. That confidential source arranged for Merchant to meet with undercover agents who posed as hitmen. Merchant detailed to these men a criminal scheme in which he, on behalf of Iran, would pay them for accomplishing three objectives: (1) stealing documents or USB drives from a target’s home; (2) planning a protest; and (3) killing a politician or government official. I suspect, and this is just my own hypothesis, that the target for the theft operation may have been John Bolton, whose email Iran had successfully hacked and stolen classified documents from. Based on the information acquired through that cyber intrusion, they may have believed that Bolton had more classified information at his home (which, thanks to the recent criminal case against him, we now know that he did). I also suspect that the targets of the murder-for-hire plot that Merchant is charged with included John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump, and others who were involved in the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani. Merchant laid out code words that they would use in their communications and gave undercover hitmen a down payment of $5,000. He instructed them that the plot would be set in motion once he, Merchant, had left the U.S. and sent them more instructions. Merchant was arrested on July 12, 2024, before he could board his flight. Among the items seized was a scrap of paper with the codewords and their meanings. His trial is scheduled to begin February 23, 2026 BTW: In the section of the video where I give context and go over some of the events that preceded Merchant coming to the U.S., I meant to talk about the targeted kills of both Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Qasem Soleimani, but I messed up and left the tabs with the Soleimani info in a different window. Doh! I'll briefly go over them in the next video because it's one of the huge motivators for the Iranian regime's efforts in this case and others. I’m always interested in what y’all have to say on the topics I cover in my videos, so please let me know your thoughts in the comments And if you like the video, well, hit the LIKE button, hit SHARE, and consider supporting my coffee habit and document addiction. Support Just Human Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/realjusthuman Substack: https://justhuman.substack.com/ Benson Honey Farms affiliate link: https://bensonhoneyfarms.com/?sca_ref=4394753.kkfBnmBW7U Bootleg Products affiliate link: https://bootlegproducts.com/ref/9/ Manly Cans affiliate link: https://www.manlycans.com/r?id=bn85pa Just Human Merch: https://www.redwhitebourbon45.com/category/just-human Follow Just Human Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/JustHuman Substack: https://justhuman.substack.com/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@justhuman X: https://x.com/realjusthuman Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialjusthuman All of my links in one place: https://linktr.ee/just_human #JustHuman